Kim, Samuel I. The Unfinished Mission in Thailand: The Uncertain Christian Impact on the Buddhist Heartland. Seoul, Korea: East-West Center for Missions Research & Development, 1980. [5812]
Former library book, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, viii., 250 pp., clean text, binding with slight signs of use. Standard library additions. Good. Paperback.
"[This book} is a truly unique accomplishment. Never before has a missionary from an Asian country working alongside American missionaries for almost two decades written a major analytical work evaluating the impact of the Christian mission. With sincerity and depth, with both outspoken criticism as well as appreciation, we find here a voice and a message to which Westerners simply cannot turn a deaf ear." - Ralph D. Winter.
"...beginning with chapter 3, he begins discussing tensions between the American Presbyterian missionaries and Thai Christians leaders after World War II up through the late 1970s. It is this second part of the book that is the most valuable and forms Kim’s unique contribution to understanding the history of Christianity in Thailand.
"According to Kim, the main sources of tension between American Presbyterian missionaries and Thai Christians in the post-war period were the liberal-evangelical divide and growing Thai resentment of missionary dominance in the Church of Christ in Thailand (CCT). The period of time covered in the second part of the book roughly corresponds to the time period Kim himself served as a missionary in Thailand (1956-1978) and is the best part of the book because the author knew personally many of the people involved and was in the midst of many events that he discusses. I have read other books on Thai church history and Christian missions in Thailand, but Kim fills in some missing pieces of the puzzle that I have been looking for." - Karl Dahlfred, online review, dahlfreddotcom.
